Hi everybody, I'll be away from home for several months. Therefore I won't be able to access a Unix system nor do any work in CVS. I'll hopefully still have access to email and web, but that's all.
Until now, I managed the incoming mails from the "form for unsupported scanners": http://www.meier-geinitz.de/tinc?key=rDoQ7lrj&formname=adddev I.e. any input given there was sent be email to me. I have now redirected that mails to the sane-devel list. I'll send some examples that I haven't handled until now later. Their subject is "Formulardaten" (form data). What needs to be done with these reports? 1) Check if the scanner in question is already in our lists (scanner search engine). If yes, check if the report contains any new data (e.g. USB ids, or sane-find-scanner output). If no, ignore report. 2) If the report is about a scanner that is not listed yet, add it to doc/descriptions/unsupported.desc in CVS and add a page in the unsupported directory of the html CVS. This can be done by copying the ".template.html" to a new name. Add the name to unsupported.desc (see existing files for examples). Commit all files to CVS. The scanner lists should be updated immediately. The search engine is only updated once a day. 3) If the scanner already exists, just add the new data to the exitsing html file in the unsupported directory in html cvs. This takes about 3-10 minutes per "Formulardaten" mail. About 30% of the reports will be empty or contain crap data. Another 20% will just have the data we already have ("I also want to have this scanner supported"). I usually don't respond to these reports at all. Maybe one or some people from sane-devel can handle these reports from now on? Ciao, Henning
